Maureen Dowd right to denounce child abuse by Catholic priests: Letter to the Editor

Kudos to Maureen Dowd in her April 25 column, denouncing the years-long travesties of the Roman Catholic Church's refusal to expose the heinous child abuses committed by their clergy. Instead of charging these "priests" with a crime, the many bishops, cardinals and even popes simply shifted them to other parishes, allowing them to continue their illicit practices....what our justice system defines as "aiding and abetting."

Allow me to take it a bit deeper:

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid to the parents of these defiled adolescents by the "church" to keep these crimes under wraps. Has it ever occurred to us that the parents were, in reality, prostituting their children for the sake of keeping silent?

It would have been more proper and honest if the parents first had the perpetrators brought to justice publicly, and then sued the culprits for reparations.

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